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The Coeducation Decade: The Fiftieth Anniversary Of Women At Wofford, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher

Library Exhibits

THE COEDUCATION DECADE: The 50th anniversary of Women at Wofford In February 1971, four women enrolled as day students at Wofford under a new policy that allowed for day student coeducation. The Board of Trustees had changed the policy to allow the admission of women in greater numbers, although women had been part of the student body in small numbers since the 1890s. Within five years, the college moved to full residential coeducation. No matter the status at Wofford, women have made contributions to the campus community. This exhibit celebrates the history of women at Wofford and the ways that …

Contextualizing Kindergarten Readiness Data: A Qualitative Research Study Of The Highland Neighborhood In Spartanburg, South Carolina, Christine Sorrell Dinkins, Laura Barbas Rhoden, Marianna Gonzalez, Mayra Lomeli-Garcia, Sandra Lopez, Hector Ortiz, Jay Stevens, Naya Taylor

Community Based Research

This project was undertaken as a result of conversations initiated by members of the Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) about the desirability of qualitative data to contextualize quantitative data generated by the use of a validated national instrument in Spartanburg County Schools. SAM is a nonprofit and community movement that facilitates the discussion of shared information and intentional, collaborative, and strategic work by cross-sector partnerships in order to foster high levels of academic attainment for all children in Spartanburg County. As part of data-gathering efforts by SAM, the Early Development Instrument (EDI) was implemented to gather data about kindergarten readiness first …

Contextualizing Kindergarten Readiness Data: A Qualitative Research Study Of Forest Park Neighborhood In Spartanburg, South Carolina, Mayra Lomeli-Garcia, Jay Stevens, Marianna Gonzalez, Sandra Lopez, Hector Ortiz, Naya Taylor, Laura Barbas Rhoden, Christine S. Dinkins

Community Based Research

This project was undertaken as a result of conversations initiated by members of the Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) about the desirability of qualitative data to contextualize quantitative data generated by the use of a validated national instrument in Spartanburg County Schools. SAM is a nonprofit and community movement that facilitates the discussion of shared information and intentional, collaborative, and strategic work by cross-sector partnerships in order to foster high levels of academic attainment for all children in Spartanburg County. As part of data-gathering efforts by SAM, the Early Development Instrument (EDI) was implemented to gather data about kindergarten readiness first …

The Teszler Times, Melissa Clapp

Library Publications

"The Teszler Times" is the faculty newsletter for the Sandor Teszler Library at Wofford College. The Spring 2018 issue contains a message from Dean Kevin Reynolds, information about various services including subject librarian program, membership in CRL, and the library gallery exhibit. Statistics from the Fall 2017 semester show interesting facts about how the Sandor Teszler Library and library services were used.

Literary Societies Of Wofford College, Phillip Stone, Luke Meagher

Library Exhibits

Less than two months after Wofford College opened, on Aug. 1, 1854, eight students met to organize a literary society. Their primary purpose was to practice their skills in debating, oratory, parliamentary procedure and writing, all of which were important skills for college students to develop.

As the college grew, so did the number of societies, with a second one being organized in 1858, a third in 1905 and a fourth in 1920. Over the college’s first century, the literary societies were integral to student life, and they made many lasting contributions. The oldest societies established libraries, began building the …

The Understanding Of A Single Story: Identities Amongst Black Students At Predominately White Institutions, Jonathan A. Franklin

Student Scholarship

This paper examines the structure of identities amongst Black students at predominately white institutions – particularly focusing on Wofford College. Extensive focus groups were conducted with members of the Black student body to further progress research. Racism regarding Black students and their social identity in addition to how it has structured the social identity amongst students are introduced in along with the identities of students on Wofford’s campus. Discrimination on campus has had the effect of narrowing Black students’ options for creating social identity and participating in campus community life. Black students regularly face a very confining choice to either …

Learning To Love The Loquacious Library, Luke Meagher, Susan Myers, Leanna Herbert

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Libraries are underutilized resources available to high school teachers. Our team set out with the goal to bring more students into the library by designing a set of “units” for which teachers could bring classes into the library. Each unit addresses Common Core Standards while simultaneously teaching a valuable skill or specific lesson. We wanted these lessons to be applicable to students, include a form of genuine assessment, while also helping teachers transition to the Common Core standards. These units are designed to be taught by librarians, but to teach skills/lessons that teachers would in their own classroom.

Oral Interviews For Testing In The High-School Spanish Classroom, John C. Akers, Casey Calvert, Kalle Davis

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Our project offers strategies and materials for the beginning Spanish classroom to increase oral proficiency of students through an emphasis on individual and small-group interviews with the teacher, which will be an integral part to every classroom test. These interviews will be referred to also as “One-On-One orals,” “OOOs,” or simply “encounters,” inspired by the oral proficiency interviews (OPIs) first developed in the 1980s to measure speaker competence in a second language--as per the proficiency guidelines of the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). (Our project’s classroom materials begin on page 5.)

As we know today, the …

Human Geography Without A Map, William E. Demars, Laurel Rosenberger, Jimmy Rogers, Trent Hardee

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Course materials developed for a 9th grade course on human geography, focusing on human rights, terrorism, and globalization.

Revision And Rewriting, Theory Of Knowledge, Grade 11-12, John D. Miles, Victoria Putnam, Candice Cliff

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

This project takes into consideration something that high school writers often overlook—revision and rewriting. We visited the classroom on three occasions to lead different kinds of revision workshops. Victoria led workshop one that focused on structure at the thesis and paragraph level. The second workshop was developed using some specific methods from Dr. Miles. We also took time to individually help students discuss structure on the larger scale and how to make that structure useful at the level of argumentation. The third visit was for individual and group conferences with students. Tori also took the role of mentor for two …

American Government In Action, Cynthia Suarez, Lea Elizabeth Allen, Mary Ford

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

This AVD project will focus on the development of student-centered learning activities and instructional strategies for a secondary government and economics teacher, Mary Ford, at Southside High School in Greenville, SC. The materials were created to provide more opportunity for students to be involved in their own learning process, analyze primary sources, and participate in self-guided learning in an effort for Government and Economics to be understood by students with varying interests and learning styles. This project was completed in three separate sections which each provide diverse lessons and address varying standards. The first section contains multi-purpose supplementary materials for …

Using Physlets In Hs Physical Science, Mackay Salley, Matt Menard

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The project proposed involves using physlets as a means of getting students engaged and delivering ideas and concepts in a novel manner. Physlets are Java applets that are designed to address a specific Physics concept. There are many similar applets for other fields such as chemlets which address Chemistry topics. There are many resources regarding physlets and we have chosen to focus on one repository, Physlet Physics by Wolfgang Christian and Mario Belloni. With the funding from the Arthur Vining Davis Jr. Grant, we can purchase a reference text and a copy of a CD with approximately three hundred physlets …

Can The Strong Get Stronger? A Laboratory Investigation Of Natural Selection For Antimicrobial Resistance, Tracie M. Ivy, Natalie W. Spivey, Sarah Grace Keaveany, Elizabeth Ramsey, Patrick Sellars, Deborah Stripling

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The students, Sarah Grace Keaveany and Elizabeth Ramsey, completed original research with to investigate 1) standing variation among common bacterial species (Escherichia coli and Stapholococcus epidermidis) in the amount of resistance to triclosan, a common anti-microbial used in hand washes; and 2) the capacity for these bacteria to develop increased resistance to triclosan through selection. The students have developed lab modules based on this research. One module includes a wet lab, where students will culture their own bacteria. The other module allows students to obtain data from photographs of bacterial plates in lieu of a wet lab component.

Vocabulary Acquisition And Technology, German I/Ii, Grade 10-12, Beate U. Brunow, Travis Trojan, Arthur Turfa

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Information technology plays an important role at Blythewood High School and the recent purchase of chrome books for students will be part of our project. All students will have access to chrome books, and Dr. Turfa also uses the social learning network “Edmodo” to communicate with his students. The project focuses on developing lessons for beginning German classes that combine knowledge and understanding of German-speaking cultures with communication. This approach reflects the current ACTFL standards for foreign language learning (preparing for the 21^st century) with the guiding learning principle: “Knowing how, when, and why to say what to whom.” …

Finances & Algebra Too!, Anne J. Catlla, Jonathan Foster, Charlene Frazier

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The focus of this project is to provide an application-based approach to teaching algebra 2. Students will study algebraic concepts and functions through the lens of personal finance. After each unit of study, students will complete a financial application project that will go into each student’s “financial” portfolio.

Censorship And Fahrenheit 451, Natalie S. Grinnell, Michelle Stinson, Susan Miles

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The goal of this project was to apply the censorship found in Fahrenheit 451 to other situations present in different areas of “the real world”. The students, after doing so, would then create a video of images and their voice, discussing themes of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451and how it’s used in other areas outside of the book. The purpose is to have students use analysis in literature and applying it in different areas as well as to do so in a different way other than through writing. By using the video software, they are changing the way that traditional …

Advanced Placement American History In 3-D, J. David Alvis, Steve Jobe, Erin Frost

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

The purpose of this project is to create an online collection of visual works that will enable high school teachers to supplement their instruction of AP American history as well as local history in Spartanburg, SC. We are grateful for this grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation and believe that this project will be a credit to their generosity. It is a commonly acknowledge fact in pedagogy today that visual stimulation enhances learning and makes it more enjoyable. Art can introduce social studies, literature, civics, and even science and math in an immediate, tangible way. In AP American History, …

Aprender Con Aventuras (Learning Through Adventures), Camille L. Bethea, Peter Elbaum, Katie Haney

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

This project focuses on developing learning modules that combine grammar and culture for beginning and intermediate level high school Spanish classes. The objective of this project is to make grammar more interactive for students, while at the same time highlighting the cultural richness and diversity of the Spanish-speaking world. This approach reflects the current ACTFL standards for foreign language learning (preparing for the 21^st century) and the South Carolina Academic Standards for Modern Languages. Ms. Haney wanted to make learning grammar more enjoyable and accessible to her students. She was also interested in exploring ways of using technology more …

¡Hablemos Con Más Fluidez! Increasing Oral Proficiency, Begona Caballero-Garcia, Benjamin Green, Lindsay Knox

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

Students that study a foreign language in high school generally graduate with a solid base in reading and writing the language; however, speaking it remains a struggle. This project was designed to develop a series of activities and a framework on which future activities can be based. The activities are meant to engage students and help them practice speaking so as to increase their oral proficiency. By doing such activities two or three times a week, students can become more accustomed to speaking a foreign language and will gain confidence. They will also have practice using vocabulary relevant to the …

The Dunlap Decade: The Presidency Of Benjamin Bernard Dunlap, 2000-2013, Phillip Stone

Library Exhibits

This exhibit featured elements of the 13-year presidency of Benjamin Dunlap, from 2000-2013

Using Graph Theory To Solve Scheduling Problems, Joseph A. Spivey, Melissa Gaddy

Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows Projects

This document is intended to introduce the instructor to the curriculum materials that we have compiled as part of the Arthur Vining Davis High Impact Fellows project. In this electronic packet, each of the following documents are included in PDF and LaTeX formats for your use: Class Handout for graph theory lesson, Instructor copy of Class Handout, Appendix containing additional examples, Presentation with applications of graphs, Student assignment with scheduling problems, Answer key to student assignment

1997 Educational Improvement Strategy, Wofford College

College Books

The Educational Improvement Strategy (EIS) is the proposed Masterplan to guide Wofford over the next ten to twenty years.

The EIS is based upon the 1987 Masterplan and incorporates all subsequent revisions by the Board of Trustees in 1989, 1992, and 1996. The proposed changes to these documents reflect the work of the cross-functional teams, various committees of the Board of Trustees, and the administration.

The purpose of the EIS is to provide a framework for establishing the level of educational quality Wofford will pursue (Part One) the means by which it intends to fulfill this direction (Part Two) and …

The Isle Of Tranquility In An Age Of Turbulence: Student Life At Wofford In The Sixties And Seventies, David Morgan

College Books

A senior thesis, prepared in 1981, about student life at Wofford College during the 1960s and 1970s. The author makes use of student newspaper articles and some interviews to describe student reaction during a period of change.

The Liberal Arts College Under Fire, Lewis P. Jones

College Books

Professor Jones's address at the Alumni-Senior Banquet on June 1, 1963 stirred his audience greatly. It was generally agreed that it should be published. I have, accordingly, requested the Alumni Office to send, with Professor Jones's consent, copies of this thought-provoking address to alumni and friends of the College. Additional copies are available on request.

History Of Wofford College: 1854-1949, David Duncan Wallace

College Books

The college's narrative history, written by Professor of History David Duncan Wallace, of the class of 1894, and published by Vanderbilt University Press just three years before the college's centennial.

The First Five Presidents Of Wofford College, William C. Herbert

College Books

This paper is a summary of the history of Presidents William Wightman, Albert Shipp, James Carlisle, Henry Snyder, and Walter Greene. It was prepared by the college's long-time registrar, William C. Herbert of the class of 1904.

Carlisle Memorial Volume, Watson Boone Duncan, Charles Forster Smith, Henry Nelson Snyder, Robert A. Law, David Duncan Wallace

College Books

Table of Contents:

The Carlisle Family

Life Sketch of Dr. Carlisle - by Dr. Charles Forster Smith

Dr. Carlisle as a Citizen - by Watson B. Duncan

The Wofford Chapel Hour - by Dr. Henry Nelson Snyder

Wofford College and its President Twenty Years Ago - by Dr. Robert A. Law

Dr. Carlisle as a Teacher - by Dr. David Duncan Wallace

Tributes to Dr. Carlisle

Methodism And Education: Especially In South Carolina, John O. Willson

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

Surveys the history of Methodist efforts in higher education, in both Great Britain and in the United States, with a special emphasis on South Carolina's colleges.

A Review Of Methodist Education In South Carolina, Emory Olin Watson

Methodist Historical Society Addresses

Summary of education in South Carolina in the colonial and antebellum eras, with a focus on the work of the Methodist Church in founding colleges and schools.

Some Extracts From The Sixth Annual Catalogue Of The Officers And Students Of The Spartanburg Female College For The Collegiate Year 1860-61, Spartanburg Female College

Methodist Books

A typescript containing the names of graduates, a brief history of the college, and a summary of their facilities as of 1861.